A multinomial logit analysis of methods used by persons who completed suicide

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 298-310

  Chuang, Hwei Lin ^a   Huang, Wei Chiao ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT ANALYSIS; OCCUPATION; PREVENTION; PROBABILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 5044234579     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.34.3.298.42779     Document Type: Article

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